SaFronia’s Daughter By India Nicole Burton
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Friday, Jan 9, 2026 7pm - 8:30pm
Location
Phoenix Theatre
705 North Illinois Street
Details
Throughout the 2205-26 season, five of America’s most dynamic playwrights collaborate with five leading Indianapolis theatre companies to bring brand new plays to life. Each development week culminates in public, concert-style readings that invite audiences to engage directly with the playwrights and their evolving work.
SaFronia’s Daughter
By India Nicole Burton
January 9, 2026, 7pm
Phoenix Theatre Cultural Centre, 705 N. Illinois St.
Artistic Partner: Phoenix Theatre
ABOUT THE PLAY: On a Louisiana plantation in 1890, a family's secret magic simmers just beneath the surface. SaFronia’s Daughter follows Bee, a young Black woman trying to protect her family’s supernatural legacy while working as a sharecropper for the white Rufus family. Her queer brother Jinx can see the dead — and when he calls their mother SaFronia back from beyond, long-buried truths come to light. Tensions explode when their brother Fool Boy’s affair with the plantation’s mistress, Madam Edwina, threatens to upend everything.
Part one of a magical trilogy tracing a Black family born out of the Middle Passage.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: India Nicole Burton is a Chicago-based director, playwright, devisor, and producer originally from Akron, Ohio. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska–Omaha and a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Akron. A two-time National New Play Network (NNPN) Producer in Residence and 2021 NNPN Bridge Program grantee, she also received an NNPN Rolling World Premiere for her acclaimed choreopoem Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation. Burton is a part of the 24’-25’ Theatre Communications Rising Leaders Color Cohort, a Drama League Award nominee (ensemble, American Dreams), and Assistant Professor at Chicago State University Communications, Media Arts & Theatre Department.
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All performances are ASL interpreted
